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I just read some really good reviews the album "The Golden River" by Frog Eyes...I was wondering if the people of the Townhall have this album, and can reccomend it. I have never heard of the band before, so I'd like some opinions.
I'm going to buy it now. Its been awhile since I've bought an album with no idea what its really going to sound like because of all the demystifying mp3s, and 30 second samples available.
I was so dissapointed. I really didn't like it at all. Listen to it first on soulseek before you go out and spend your money.
Erraaah, okay. I haven't ordered it yet. I guess I'll download a song or 2 first since it was unrecomended.
but then again I listen to noise every day. It sounds great in an Interpol fronted by Jamie Stuart kind of way. Are you not fans of Interpol and/or Xiu Xiu? Xiu Xiu is very definately my second fav of all time (after NMH).
Off subject, but I get to see Low and Haley Bonar Friday night in Minneapolis. I'm excited.
I still might buy it, but if I hear mixed things about it I decided I should sample it first. I do like Interpol. I don't know about Xiu Xiu though, I've never listened to them really.
how come i've never heard of Xiu Xiu? who are they?
Well, I got "The Golden River" finally earlier this month and I do like it.
I just found out Frog Eyes released another album last month (The Folded Palm), and Carey Mercer has a solo album out now (Blackout Beach - Light Flows the Putrid Dawn). It weird because I've heard absolutley nothing about them and have seen no online reviews. I need to get both, has anyone picked them up?
its so genuiune though!! xiu xiu make amazingly emotional music.. and so melodic too. i'm digging their altest album immensely.
the goldne river is a masterpiece, and i am particularly enjoying the folded palm, and highly recomend seeing them live if they come near you (its quite an experiance). The first time you listne to them, mercer's voice comes off as increidbley obnoxious, but that is what is so beautiful about the music, i find that after each listne (to nay album) i enjoy it even more than th elast.


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June 18, 2013 Kurdish Women
Middle East Women's Conference final resolution
Final Resolution
1. Middle East Women's Conference
Between 31 May and 2 June, the first Middle East Women's Conference took place in Amed (Diyarbakir). This event, organized by the Free Democratic Women Movement was titled 'Jin – Jiyan – Azadi' (women – life – freedom) and was dedicated to the three Kurdish women political activists who were murdered in Paris on 9 January, Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez. For three days, 250 women from 26 Middle Eastern and North African countries discussed their experiences in the fight for liberation patriarchal power systems and shared their perspectives on the current political developments in the region.
On the second day, a statement was published in the name of the participants denouncing the police violence in Istanbul. It read; 'Taksim Square belongs to everyone. The attacks are directed against the democratic rights of the population, like the right to protest. We support all people who fight for the natural environment and the right to breathe.'
At the end of the three-day conference, vice-chair of the BDP Gültan Kışanak delivered a speech on behalf of all the delegates. She emphasized the aims of the conference to strengthen international solidarity and the joint struggle ''independently of the Western orientalist view''. She declared, ''We thank the Free Democratic Women Movement for bringing us together and we salute the High Council of the Kurdish Women Movement KJB, who initiated the revolutionary fight for the liberation of Kurdish women.''
On the issue of regional developments, Gültan Kışanak stated: 'For us women this crucial phase holds not only new possibilities but also risks. We are bearing the historical responsibility to take decisive and well planned action in these changing dynamics.'
The final resolution reads:
'Together we will build a network of communication between all participants in this conference. In order to strengthen our collaboration, a rotating coordination group will guarantee the communication until the second conference takes place. We will put together a group of observers who will be working in the refugee camps where women from Syria are based.
'Women are very much affected by the changes taking place in the Middle East and North Africa. They are actively participating in the ongoing struggle. But with every change of government, the rights of women are further dismantled. In collaboration with the patriarchal power system, violence, attacks and rape are used as weapons to force women out of political and public space and out of decision-making bodies. Our understanding of history and our personal experiences have proven that radical religion and dogmas of monolithic nation-states – based on ''laicism'' – are the main dangers for women's freedom. One of the most important actions is therefore to intensify the struggle against those two models and to transform the current process of change into a women's revolution.
'No ideology, religion or belief system shall be used to pressure women. The choices women make with regards to their way of live or their way of dressing shall not be allowed to lead to any form of discrimination or restrict their social and political rights or their rights to an education and work.
'We declare that we will fights against rape, stoning sentences, genital mutilation, the killing of women, state or patriarchal violence against women, as well as against the neoliberal politics, which are designed to force women into poor working conditions. We also announce that we will initiate joint activities to gain support from the international community for women who are facing the death sentence. Together we will fight against torture and ill treatment in custody.
'We are opposing any form of discrimination based on ethnicity, ideology, religious convictions, sexual identity and orientation. Also the rights of those without religious beliefs need to be protected. All peoples have the right to use and defend their native language. The right to education and usage of your mother tongue are integral parts of our demands.
'We are against all forms of occupation and foreign intervention. We believe that national and social forces cannot be separated from the fight for women's rights and that these two struggles need to be aligned.
'We denounce the mono-nationalist model and support a democratic-pluralistic state model. We fight against imperialistic politics and for the friendship of nations. The fight against fascism and any form of dictatorship is one of our basic principles.
'We declare that we will continue our fight until all women who are imprisoned for political reasons will be released. These women are championing our rights, freedom and democracy on a political, legal and democratic level. We call on the governments to free these prisoners immediately.
'In remembrance of all women who have lost their lives while fighting for freedom, we hereby declare that 9 January – the day when Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez were murdered – to be a day of action against political killings.
'As women we believe that peace negotiations cannot lead to true peace building measures unless gender equality is guaranteed. This is why we invite all women to increase their struggle for more female representation in the peace negotiations. We support the peace talks that are taking place between Abdullah Öcalan – representative of the Kurdish people – and the Turkish state. We declare that we will campaign for these negotiations to have positive results, which will benefit the Kurdish population. We demand freedom for Abdullah Öcalan. We support the struggle for rights and freedom for Kurdistan, which has been colonised by four states at the beginning of the 20th century.
'We view the question of liberation of the Kurdish and Palestinian people and refugees as the main issues in the Middle East. Without freeing these two peoples there can be no peace in the region. We support the fight for freedom of the Palestinian and Kurdish people and all other peoples. We refer to the right of self-determination of people.
'We support the fight of the Palestinian people, the right of return and the liberation of the Palestinian territory.
'We demand the release of the political prisoner Zeynep Celaliyan; the Tunisian activist Amina, who was arrested because she said, 'my body belongs to me'; the Palestinian activist Ahmat Saadat and Marwan Barguti, as well as the Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja.
'We denounce political, ideological and ethnically motivated discrimination and the restrictions on women's freedom. We declare that we will fight together against the problems we face as women, no matter our political leanings and ideological convictions.
'This is why we will start a campaign against state and patriarchal violence, to draw attention to the violence women face in both the public and private sphere. We nominate the 25 November as a 'day of activism' to oppose violence against women.
'We will also campaign against the destruction of nature, our cultural history and the occupation through war.
'This conference offers us women a platform to coordinate our joint international struggle against those in power, the dictators and the patriarchal power system. It depends on us to strengthen these foundations. We have faith in ourselves and are convinced that it will be women who will bring peace to the Middle East.'
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Kurdish News Weekly Briefing, 14 – 20 June 2013

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package io.grpc.internal;

import static io.grpc.internal.GrpcUtil.DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMultimap;
import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;

import io.grpc.internal.AbstractStream.Phase;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;

import java.io.InputStream;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class AbstractStreamTest {
  @Mock private StreamListener streamListener;

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
  }

  @Test
  public void onStreamAllocated_shouldNotifyReady() {
    AbstractStream<Object> stream = new AbstractStreamBase<Object>(null);

    stream.onStreamAllocated();

    verify(streamListener).onReady();
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  @Test
  public void validPhaseTransitions() {
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        .put(Phase.HEADERS, Phase.HEADERS)
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    private AbstractStreamBase(WritableBufferAllocator bufferAllocator) {
      super(bufferAllocator, DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE);
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    @Override
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      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
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    @Override
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      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
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    @Override
    protected void remoteEndClosed() {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    protected void returnProcessedBytes(int processedBytes) {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
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    @Override
    protected void deframeFailed(Throwable cause) {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }
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}


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Jeffrey A. Mannisto
Leader, Tax, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
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Many countries determine corporate tax residence by reference to where a company is managed, whereas others, such as the United States, define tax residence by reference to place of incorporation, which could lead to taxation on worldwide income in multiple countries. As an example, directors and high-level executives who are unable to travel could inadvertently cause a U.S. company to become a tax resident of the country where the director or executive is located, if control of the company is exercised in that country. This is primarily a concern for privately held companies with multinational operations whose leadership may have been displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bad Debts and Debt Cancellations
CARES Act Retirement Plan Provisions
Delay of Payment of Employer Payroll Taxes
Employee Retention Tax Credit for Employers Subject to Closure Due to COVID-19
Employers Receive Payroll Tax Credit Relief for Emergency COVID-19 Sick Leave
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Emergency Loan Program under CARES Act Preserves Use of Net Operating Losses by Borrowers
Limited Expansion of Business Interest Deduction to Offset Effects of COVID-19
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Modifying Revised Net Operating Loss Tax Rules to Ease Financial and Economic Effects of COVID-19
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We all have those days when the only acceptable way to finish out your afternoon is with a visit to happy hour. But what if you're not sure who has the best deals? There are tons of hidden happy hour gems in Lehigh Valley, and I've taken a quick moment to give you some suggestions for each day so that you can get the most bang for your buck!
Monday: Mesa Modern Mexican in Easton offers up margaritas at $5 per glass or $20 per pitcher (rocks only). Best part about this deal? It's all day- not just during normal happy hour times! So pop over and stay for dinner, their outdoor tables are lovely in the summertime.
Tuesday: Head on over to The Bookstore Speakeasy in Bethlehem where you'll find $2 off cocktails, beer, and wine from 5-7pm (and also on appetizers, entrees, and desserts!). Have other Tuesday night plans? That's okay, because this offer is valid Tuesday – Saturday.
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Still not satisfied? Here are a couple bonus options, too.
PJ Whelihan's Pub (both the Allentown & Bethlehem locations) offer great specials each day of the week, my favorite being Mojito Monday- $5 mojitos from 4-6pm.
Porter's Pub in Easton features $2 drafts from 5-7pm Monday through Friday. They have an excellent selection of craft brews to choose from.
What are your favorite spots for a post-work beverage (or two)?


Dear Pasek and Paul, does Evan own more than one polo? Sincerely, me.
Though, reports of a film based on the Tony-winning musical shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. After all, the show has experienced a hugely successful run on Broadway, spawning a national tour, a soundtrack that debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, a young adult novel, and the kind of fandom that's usually reserved for CW dramas (and Hamilton).
Variety reports that Oscar- and Tony-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway smash, penned a deal with Universal Pictures, and playwright Steven Levenson, who took home the Tony for writing the musical's book, is working on the script. Meanwhile, The Perks of Being a Wallflower's Stephen Chbosky — no stranger to complex stories about teens and mental illness — will direct.
Now, if Platt is on board to once again don Evan's striped polo and incredibly sweaty, terribly itchy arm cast, then does that mean that Dear Evan Hansen will be a movie musical? And will any of Connor's backstory — explored in Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel — make it into the film? Most importantly: Will Evan learn how to break in a glove?!
2. If Platt reprises his role, does that mean Rachel Bay Jones will too? Because "So Big/So Small" just won't be the same without this iconic duo.
17. Will we finally get to see Evan grapple with the emotional fallout of his actions, and, you know, suffer any real-life consequences? We'll have to wait and see!


I decided to do something semi-serious on the lathe for once, instead of turning 2x4 pine into a pile of shavings.
I got tired of using a rubber mallet to strike my chisels when I needed to use them. The balance was horrible, and the thing had too much weight and mass to be easily controlled.
What a perfect project then, to make a carver's mallet from the scraps I had around the garage/shop.
First I face jointed a pair of 1x3" (3/4 x 2 1/2") scraps of curly maple. Beautiful figure on this wood! I glued and clamped them into a 2 1/2" x 9" turning blank.
On the lathe I roughed out the shape with my Harbor Freight turning tools. I had a good idea in my head of what shape I wanted, and as I was turning I kept grabbing the handle to fit it to my hand.
Once done, I mounted it into 3 laminated pieces of 1/4" wood: one of padauk and 2 of oak, all with alternating grain directions. I mounted it by cutting a hole in the laminated wood so the handle taper is a press-fit. I cut a kerf in the end of the maple handle so it could be wedged into place. I used a scrap of purpleheart I had for the wedge.
I flush cut the wedge, jointed the face of the laminated wood/handle assembly and moved on to building up the rest of the head.


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TIFF Trailer Watch: Farrell, Walken, Rockwell, Waits, Harrelson Get Worked Up in 'Seven Psychopaths'
TIFF Trailer Watch: Farrell, Walken, Rockwell, Waits, Harrelson Get Worked Up in 'Seven Psychopaths'
Maggie Lange
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Written and directed by Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh, "Seven Psychopaths" is the writer's latest project after 2008's "In Bruges," also starring Farrell.
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The defense was giving the Texans offense hell. Not only did Calais Campbell play up to his new contract, but A.J. Bouye and Jalen Ramsey locked down DeAndre Hopkins. The box score might not reflect that, with Hopkins having seven receptions and a touchdown, but it was a long afternoon for Nuk and the Texans — who eventually benched Tom Savage for Deshaun Watson.
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He had almost as many interceptions (four) as completions (five). Throw in a pair of sacks and a fumble, and the fact that Gary Kubiak had seen enough to put in Osweiler late in the third quarter, and it's easy to understand why this could qualify for the worst QBR game ever.
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Unlike most of the other quarterbacks on this list, it all worked out for Manning. He pushed past the bad game and the bad foot and got himself a ring.
That's the kind of rebound Dalton can only dream of.
The only guy who had a worse Monday night on the sideline was Sergio Dipp. Peterson's frustration at not playing more became the game's big story when ESPN cameras captured him giving Saints coach Sean Payton a death stare late in the first half.
Not that it matters to Payton one iota, as Peterson will soon learn. More on that later.
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The Vikings could still enjoy offensive success during Peterson's heyday with a ground-and-pound mantra that worked around his deficiencies in the passing game, and because Peterson simply was that good. The philosophy was no longer feasible as Peterson grew older and began showing wear and tear.
The fact Peterson still believed he was the same caliber runner and all that goes with that mindset contributed to Minnesota releasing him this offseason without even trying to restructure his bloated contract. The Vikings simply didn't need the headache he could become if not fed the football enough.
It didn't. All the things Peterson said after signing with the Saints about being a team player and willing to work in a rotation of running backs were rendered hot air with Monday night's sideline behavior.
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Hyperinflation, Money Demand, and the Crack-up Boom
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In the early 1920s, Ludwig von Mises became a witness to hyperinflation in Austria and Germany — monetary developments that caused irreparable and (in the German case) cataclysmic damage to civilization.
Mises's policy advice was instrumental in helping to stop hyperinflation in Austria in 1922. In his Memoirs, however, he expressed the view that his instruction — halting the printing press — was heeded too late:
Austria's currency did not collapse — as did Germany's in 1923. The crack up boom did not occur. Nevertheless, the country had to bear the destructive consequences of continuing inflation for many years. Its banking, credit, and insurance systems had suffered wounds that could no longer heal, and no halt could be put to the consumption of capital.1
As Mises noted, hyperinflation in Germany was not stopped before the complete destruction of the reichsmark. To illustrate the monetary catastrophe, one may take a look at the exchange rate of the reichsmark against the US dollar. Before the start of World War I in 1914, around 4.2 marks would buy 1 US dollar. As soon as war action began, the convertibility of the mark was suspended and paper marks (papiermark) were issued, largely for financing war-related outlays. In 1918, after the end of World War I, 8.4marks bought 1 US dollar.2 In December 1919, the mark had depreciated to 46.8 per US dollar, and in December 1920 to 73.4 per dollar.
In July 1922, the US dollar cost 670 marks. When French and Belgian troops occupied the Rhineland at the beginning of 1923, however, the exchange rate of the mark plummeted to 49,000 marks per US dollar. On November 15, 1923, when hyperinflation reached its peak, the currency reform effectively made 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) papiermarkequal to 1 rentenmark, and as 4.2 trillion papiermark exchanged for 1 US dollar at that time, 4.2 rentenmark would equal 1 US dollar.3
Increases in the Money Supply
The 20th century saw many hyperinflations, including China in 1949–50, Brazil in 1989–90, Argentina in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Russia in 1992, Yugoslavia in 1994, and, most recently, Zimbabwe in 2006–09. All of these hyperinflations were the direct result of a system of unfettered fiat money under government control — a system that produces money in a non-market-conforming way: the money supply is increased out of thin air by banks simply extending loans (circulation credit) and/or monetizing assets.
Hyperinflation is perhaps the darkest side of a government fiat money regime. Among mainstream economists, hyperinflation typically denotes a period of exceptionally strong increases in overall prices of goods and services, thus denoting a period of exceptionally strong erosions in the exchange value of money. Some people consider a rise in overall prices of 10 percent per month (which implies an annual rate of price increases of around 214 percent) as hyperinflation; others indentify hyperinflation as a monthly price rise of at least 20 percent (which implies an annual increase in prices of nearly 792 percent).
However, any such numerical definition can be criticized, as it refers to the symptom rather than the root cause of the accelerating loss of the purchasing power of money. Economically speaking, hyperinflation is the inevitable consequence of an ever-greater rise in the amount of money. And this is exactly what the monetary theory of the Austrian School of economics teaches: In fact, Austrian theory shows that inflation is the logical consequence of a rise in the money supply, and that hyperinflation is the logical outcome of ever-higher growth rates in the money supply.
According to the Austrian school, money is, like any other good, subject to the irrefutably true law of diminishing marginal utility. It is this law, which is implied by the axiom of human action, which is at the heart of Mises's praxeology. As it relates to money, the law of diminishing marginal utility states that an increase in the quantity of money by an additional unit will inevitably be ranked lower (that is, valued less) than any same-sized unit of money already in an individual's possession. This is because the new money can only be employed as a means for removing a state of uneasiness that is deemed less urgent than the least-urgent uneasiness which one has up to now been removing with the money in one's possession.
Money Demand
People hold money because money has purchasing power (which people desire, given the fact of uncertainty as an undeniable category of human action), and the purchasing power of money is determined by the supply of and demand for money.
If a rise in the money supply is accompanied by an equal rise in money demand, overall prices and the purchasing power of money remain unchanged. Once people start to exchange their increased money holdings against other goods, however, prices will start to rise, and the purchasing power of money will fall. That said, it is rise of the money supply relative to the demand for money that brings to the fore the obvious effect of an increasing money supply: rising prices.
Mises saw that money demand plays a crucial role for the possibility of an unfolding hyperinflation. If the central bank is expected to increase the money supply in the future, people can be expected to rein in their money demand in the present — that is, increasingly surrendering money against vendible items. This would, other things being equal, drive up money prices. Mises noted that "this goes on until the point is reached beyond which no further changes in the purchasing power of money are expected."4 The process of rising prices would come to a halt once people have fully adjusted for the expected increase in the money supply.
What happens, however, if people expect that, in the future, the money-supply growth rate will increase to ever-higher rates? In this case, the demand for money would, sooner or later, collapse. Such an expectation would lead (relatively quickly) to a point at which no one would be willing to hold any money — as people would expect money to lose its purchasing power altogether. People would start fleeing out of money entirely. This is what Mises termed a crack-up boom:
If once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities and services will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and to restrict his cash holding to a minimum size. For under these circumstances the regular costs incurred by holding cash are increased by the losses caused by the progressive fall in purchasing power. The advantages of holding cash must be paid for by sacrifices which are deemed unreasonably burdensome. This phenomenon was, in the great European inflations of the 'twenties, called flight into real goods (Flucht in die Sachwerte) or crack-up boom (Katastrophenhausse).5
The Unrelenting Power to Inflate
If people expect a forthcoming, drastic increase the money supply — but if they at the same time expect that such an increase will be limited (i.e., a one-off increase) — the central bank can actually orchestrate a debasing of money without causing its complete destruction. As long as government and its central bank succeed in making people believe that any future rise in the money supply will remain within an acceptable limit, from the viewpoint of the money holder, monetary policy is an effective and most perfidious instrument for expropriation and non-market-conforming income redistribution.
This may explain why Murray N. Rothbard, in his famous essay The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar, wrote the following:
I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own. Unfortunately … if fiat money could not continue indefinitely, I would not have to come here to plead for its abolition.6
Rothbard saw the danger that the government-controlled fiat money could be held up and running indefinitely, that it would not necessarily drive itself into a fatal and final collapse. As long as people do not expect that a money supply increase will spin out of control, the central bank is in a position to debase the currency without completely destroying it.
In other words: hyperinflation would be possible without destroying the money completely. The crack-up boom, as Mises pointed out, would unfold only when people come to the conclusion that the central bank will expand the money supply at ever-greater rates:
But then finally the masses wake up. They become suddenly aware of the fact that inflation is a deliberate policy and will go on endlessly. A breakdown occurs. The crack-up boom appears. Everybody is anxious to swap his money against "real" goods, no matter whether he needs them or not, no matter how much money he has to pay for them. Within a very short time, within a few weeks or even days, the things which were used as money are no longer used as media of exchange. They become scrap paper. Nobody wants to give away anything against them.7
Debt Levels
Today's fiat-money regimes are characterized by ever-greater amounts of debt relative to real income — caused by policies that try to solve the economic problems caused by credit and money creation out of thin air by using even greater amounts of credit and money created out of thin air. And it is fair to say that the higher an economy's overall debt level is, the more likely hyperinflation becomes.
To show this, let us assume that after a long period of money creation through bank circulation credit expansion a credit crisis emerges: Creditors are no longer willing to roll over maturing debt at prevailing interest rates. Borrowers cannot repay their obligations when payment is due, and neither can they afford paying higher borrowing costs. Investors start fleeing out of bonds, making interest rates increase sharply and thereby covering up unprofitable investment. More borrowers, including banks, fail to meet their obligations, and bankruptcies spread. Ensuing recession and rising unemployment aggravate the collapse of the credit structure.
Should investors in such a situation expect that the government and its central bank would opt for bailouts financed through additional money creation, the demand for money and fixed claims would most likely dry up. This would make it necessary for the central bank to extend ever-greater amounts of money to struggling borrowers in order to prevent the spread of bankruptcies. The larger the amount of outstanding debt is, the larger will be the potential increase in the money supply. The more the money supply grows, the more likely it is that there will be hyperinflation and a potential breakdown of money demand: the unfolding of a crack-up boom.
[This article was originally published January 2010.]
1. Ludwig von Mises, Memoirs (Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009), pp. 63–64.
2. The exchange rates are taken from "Dollarkurs und Goldmark im Verhältnis zur Papiermark 1918–1923," Wirtschaftsverlag Nerchau (no publishing date).
3. For an instructive and highly informative study on the German hyperinflation, see F.D. Graham, Exchange, Prices, And Production in Hyper-Inflation: Germany, 1920–1923 (New York: Russell & Russell, 1967 [1930]).
4. Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, The Scholar's Edition (Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1996), p. 427.
6. Murray N. Rothbard, The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar (Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005 [1962]), p. 149.
7. Mises, Human Action, p. 428.
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For Name: type High Sierra You can rename it later e. Click Yes button when you see the warning dialog box. After the installer completely boots, In the top menu bar choose Utilities, and open Terminal e. Again, the installer will launch when the download is complete; close the window when this happens. However, it can be accessed through Terminal, which you will have to open for this part of the process.
I put it so for 12 hours to see if it will something happen but nothing and I have to shoot it down. If you type the command into Terminal, remember the command is case sensitive. Therefore, close the installer app by pressing Command-Q on your keyboard. That is most likely the cause of the error, not which command used provided it is free of typos. I tried to do a Recovery Mode Boot through Clover, and now my powerbook is completely unresponsive to anything.
In Techhowdy I publish new technology news every day. To do this, open Disk Utility. You'll be presented with a list of bootable drives. If you still need some info from that drive, you can use an app like to sync it with another drive and keep the files. There is an easy way to backup each user account on your Mac. Upon completion, the system will automatically restart. Duplicates are selected not only by the file name but also by their contents.
You can download the installer from the Mac App Store on your Mac. Step 3: Run TransMac software as administrator. If you are already on, or have already downloaded High Sierra, you may need to click the Download button. So maybe if you are having significant difficulty getting High Sierra, like I did with mountain lion betas, you can go to the genius bar to get it more successfully. The User-Friendly Tool currently at version 7 is the more user-friendly tool for the job. The installer will remain in your Applications folder.
I made one with the other command and it works. You can decide which way to clean these files; either by sending them to trash or deleting them permanently. Copy and paste the following command in the terminal window. For the purposes of this tip, in the Finder name the external drive macinstall. I am Software Engineering Technology graduate from Centennial College Canada. This will begin the download of the full installer. Advanced users may also compile Clover by downloading the full source.
It will save to hours of manual file cleanup and polish your system before the backup. The High Sierra installer app will be in your Applications folder, so you can go there and launch it later to upgrade your Mac to the new operating system. I cannot overstate the importance of performing these two tasks before you begin the installation process. But it would be better to get operating systems direct from the official vendors. Got the Clover boot screen and tried to install serria. When the Terminal informs you that the process is done, you should have bootable media which can be used on any compatible Mac.
I cannot see anything on the screen, no sound comes on or lights. I believe you also want to keep your Mac clean. Change the target drive for installation. When you see the TransMac Trial dialog box, Click Run button. Choose the drive or partition, knowing that it will be completely overwritten. First, you can connect it to a running Mac and launch the upgrade installer. How long does it usually take to finish? For 1 icon efi boot, when i enter to install mchighsierra, apple logo appears and 3 beeps sound ringing non stop.
Well known is that apple stores have their own free wifi. If the installer auto-initiates the installation close it. Saves you time and money on looking for apps for your daily tasks. If it is not a success, please follow the steps again and format your flash drive. Next, click Erase from the toolbar.


Eden Primary School was a small rural educational establishment on the Ballymacpeake Road. It was on the left hand side if you were going towards Clady, just past Alfie Brown's out-houses and before Harper York's. It was approximately four miles from Portglenone.
It is very difficult to imagine this tiny County Derry school in the 1830s, a single room of only 18 feet by 29 feet, being able to accommodate 171 pupils. Indeed, it is hard to imagine where one would find such numbers of students in such a rural location.
My father, Richard Mulholland (seen in the 1942 photo above, with his brothers Samuel and Stanley, and sister: Lottie) did not complete his education at Eden Primary School.
On accidentally dropping and breaking his ink-well (the ink-well sat in a hole on the front corner of the old wooden desks), splattering the floor in ink, my father feared the repercussions from the strict regime (the female teacher was apparently quite strict), and pre-empted any potential caning, by setting off at some considerable pace for home.
According to family folklore, he ran the entire half-mile home, without stopping. And that was the end of his education. He never went back.
After it's closure, the school's old wooden desks (which were given away) were still to be found, in local homes, in the 1960s and 70s.


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Bond 25: Murdoch's tabloids strike back
Posted on April 27, 2019 by The Spy Commander
Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns tabloids The Sun (U.K.) and New York Post (U.S.)
Tabloid papers belonging to News Corp., run by Rupert Murdoch, a possible inspiration for the media mogul in Tomorrow Never Dies, have weighed in with dire depictions about Bond 25.
What's more, one of their targets is Bond 25 star Daniel Craig, making his fifth film as Bond.
To be sure, Bond films have always gotten lots of attention from tabloids. Nevertheless, two Murdoch tabloids — The Sun in the U.K. and the New York Post in the U.S. — have published stories with a common theme. Namely, according to the Murdoch publications, all is not well behind the scenes with Bond 25.
On April 25, the same day as the Bond 25 media event in Jamaica, the Post's Page Six gossip operation runs a story headlined, "There's already trouble in paradise on new James Bond set."
A sample of the prose:
A source close to Bond 25 said, "They don't have a script, there's no title, it is nearly five years since the last Bond. It starts with a retired Bond living in wedded bliss, but the rest of the script is still being worked over. They rolled out the cast this week at Ian Fleming's villa in Jamaica because if they wait much longer Daniel Craig, who is 51, will be too old, and then he really won't do the film."
As Jack Benny used to say: "Well!" The story also said there would be cameos by Grace Jones (who played May Day in A View to a Kill) and Christoph Waltz, who played Blofeld in SPECTRE.
Not to be outdone, The Sun publishes a story on April 26 with the headline, "James Bond 25 chaos as Daniel Craig is given creative control amid fears he wants spy to be PC."
Among other things in the story:
Bond head honcho Barbara Broccoli, 58, and makers E-on (sic) Productions were desperate for Craig to make a U-turn.
So they handed him a £18.4million pay cheque and complete creative control, meaning he has a say on casting, scripts, locations, costumes, technical team — and even the role of director.
A Bond insider said: "The move has got people's backs up. Some are expecting constant arguments, as whatever Craig wants, he gets."
If Jack Benny were still with us, he'd be saying "Well!" a lot.
Not to be outdone, the Post came back with another a column today headlined, "How whiney Daniel Craig killed James Bond."
Another sample:
Since Craig first donned the spy's tuxedo in 2006's "Casino Royale," the franchise has turned increasingly homogeneous, dreary and frankly skippable. The granddaddy of super-spy films is now one of the most mediocre action series out there — and Craig is largely to blame for it.
During his reign, 007 has become a bitter curmudgeon who jets 'round the world pouting and going rogue in seemingly every film. Huh, kinda sounds like Craig himself.
Yikes! Is this a coordinated assault by the House of Murdoch? Or does Murdoch's News Corp. simply employ a lot of like-minded people?
Oh well. We'll see how it goes. Principal photography on Bond 25 is scheduled to begin Sunday, April 28, in Jamaica.
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Bond 25, Daniel Craig, Eon Productions, New York Post, News Corp., Rupert Mudoch, The Sun, Tomorrow Never Dies |	6 Comments »
Caveat Emptor: Murdoch tabloids disagree about Craig
Posted on July 29, 2016 by The Spy Commander
The following is presented for entertainment value only.
Two tabloid outposts of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. are, amusingly, in disagreement about the prospects whether Daniel Craig might return to the role of James Bond or not.
Back on July 22, the U.K. tabloid The Sun said Eon Productions co-boss Barbara Broccoli wasn't in a hurry about Bond 25 because she's producing other films. It quoted a source as saying, "It will give her time to work out a script and try to convince Daniel to maybe return."
On July 28, Page Six, which is part of the New York Post (the tabloid Murdoch acquired in 1976, becoming his entry into the U.S. market), also said Broccoli wasn't in a hurry. In this case, it quotes a source as saying no 007 casting until Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer selects a studio partner to release Bond 25. Sony Pictures' contract expired with SPECTRE.
But the U.S. side of the Murdoch empire tosses this in:
Meanwhile, there are still bad feelings between Bond bosses and the most recent star Daniel Craig, who famously said he "would rather break this glass and slit my wrists" than play 007 again. Another source added, "Producers think that ungracious comment, right before the release of 'Spectre,' cost them tens of millions at the box office. They're ready to forget about Daniel."
Who knows? As we said, we pass this along for entertainment value.
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Bond 25, Daniel Craig, News Corp., Page Six, Rupert Murdoch, SPECTRE, The Sun |	Leave a comment »
New York compares Rupert Murdoch to 007 villains
New York magazine's editor, Adam Moss, and its star essayist, Frank Rich, engaged in a dialogue on the publication's Web site about the unfolding phone hacking scandal involving News Corp. and its chief executive, 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch. Inevitably, there were comparisons between the media mogul and the adversaries of a certain gentleman agent.
Here's the key excerpt:
Adam: There really is no one like Murdoch in the world — and no company like his, which manages to be both a rogue operation and a hugely successful corporate behemoth at the same time. That's a neat trick to pull off. (snip) And News Corp. — what a name! Could have been coined by Ian Fleming (or a whole host of more conspiratorial fantasists). In fact, Murdoch has always seemed to me more like a James Bond villain** — with their placid exteriors and raging interiors — than any other corporate executive I know. He revels in it. Most corporate cultures are bland as a matter of strategy. But not his.
Frank: To me, the Rosebud** that animates Murdoch is the "me-against-the-world" chip on his shoulder — he is indeed a Bond villain to the core.
To further make the point, the Web site includes a still of Gert Frobe playing the title character of Goldfinger, the third James Bond film. New York, though, passed up the chance to include an image of Elliott Carver (Jonathan Pryce) from 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies, a character who was a media baron. This clip begins with a scene of Carver addressing his underlings, one of whom was played by Eon Productions co-boss Michael G. Wilson.
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Adam Moss, Elliott Carver, Frank Rich, Gert Frobe, Goldfinger, Jonathan Pryce, Michael G. Wilson, New York magazine, New York magazine compares Rupert Murdoch to Bond villains, News Corp., News Corp. phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch, Tomorrow Never Dies |	Leave a comment »
The Times runs excerpts from Carte Blanche
Posted on May 14, 2011 by The Spy Commander
News Corp.'s The Times of London today has excerpts of Jeffery Deaver's new James Bond continuation novel, Carte Blanche. The Times is a subscription-only Web site, so you'll have to pay to see it. You can CLICK HERE to access the Web site, where you'll be prompted how to pay for access.
Filed under: James Bond Books | Tagged: Carte Blanche, James Bond Books, James Bond continuation novels, Jeffery Deaver, News Corp., The Times, The Times runs excerpts of Carte Blanche |	Leave a comment »


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Home Center Well Alabama business opposed immigration law, but some say not loudly enough
Alabama business opposed immigration law, but some say not loudly enough
Nicolas Mendoza
Alabama's new immigration law has been called the most far-reaching of the state-level efforts at cracking down on undocumented immigrants. But of all the Alabama interest groups that the law affects, none has greater influence on the Republican Party-controlled Legislature than business groups, who are some of the biggest contributors to GOP state lawmakers' election campaigns.
Opponents of the bill say that had business been more outspoken with their disapproval of the bill, it would never have passed: "There was no opposition from people who traditionally support Republicans, if you know what I mean," says Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa). "If the business community was against the bill in its present form, it wouldn't have passed."
Business groups in Alabama say they worked with legislators in an effort to prevent some of the harsher measures in the new state immigration bill from being implemented.
"We met with the sponsors of the legislation numerous times," says Russell Davis of the Home Builders Association of Alabama. Davis says that his group found the law's potential impact on its members' workforce "troubling."
"We have not been and never have been an advocate for people being here illegally," says Davis. "What we want is for people who are here legally to live and prosper."
England thinks business groups were afraid of appearing to be against reform, but were also motivated by Republican partisanship and ideology of their own. "Public opinion was in favor of some sort of immigration reform," he says.
Shay Farley, legal director of Alabama Appleseed, agrees that opponents of the bill who are traditionally allied with Republicans avoided publicizing their discomfort with the bill. "It's always interesting who's loud and proud and who's working behind the scenes," she says.
As The American Independent reported in June, the rapid process by which the ambitious bill expanded and changed in the last few days before the final version was passed in both chambers meant that many stakeholders, including businesses and employers throughout the state, were unaware of exactly how the bill would affect them by the time the governor signed it. Representatives for business associations that TAI spoke to said while their organizations were unhappy with potentially negative effects the law could have on their workforce, they are now primarily concerned with teaching their members about the new law and lobbying for changes in future legislative sessions.
Jay Reed, president of Alabama Associated Builders and Contractors and co-chair of Alabama Employers for Immigration Reform (ALEIR), says, "HB56 passed, it is now law. While some groups are challenging the law through the court system, we feel that a better approach is to meet with employers throughout the state and educate them about the law."
Reed says that ALEIR, which lobbies on behalf of Alabama businesses interested in immigration policy, "was very visible during the legislative session."
But Rep. England says that business advocates were unwilling to voice full-throated opposition to the law in public, even as they privately told legislators to vote against the bill, out of fear of appearing to be against state-level immigration enforcement efforts, which are strongly supported by the Alabama public. "In hallways we'd hear one thing but in private it would be a different conversation," England says.
"I think our position has been that we would agree that immigration reform is best handled at the federal level," says Jeff Helms, a spokesperson for the Alabama Farmers Federation, which was involved in the lobbying process through ALEIR. One of the Farmers Federation's biggest concerns was the bill's requirement that all businesses use E-Verify, the federal electronic system for verifying legal status of employees, as opposed to a non-electronic system that older and less technologically-savvy farmers could use.
Ultimately, however, business groups' influence didn't prevent almost all Republicans from voting in favor of the immigration bill. In the state Senate, only one Republican, restaurant owner Paul Sanford, voted against the bill in its final form.
The immigration section of Sanford's website says that while he supports strong enforcement of immigration laws, "Local and state candidates who use the immigration issue are merely grandstanding on a subject they know little about."
According to FollowTheMoney.org, the Business Council of Alabama, the Alabama Farmers Federation and the Alabama Association of Realtors each contributed more money to Sanford's candidacy than they did to any other successful candidate for the Legislature in 2010.
Sanford had not responded to The American Independent's request for comment as of publish time.
Reed says that advocacy on the immigration laws from business groups will continue in future sessions of the Legislature. "A main concern now is workers here legally are leaving becomes of the law's perceived insensitivity towards Hispanics," he says.
Those concerns are already being justified, says the Farmers Federation's Jeff Helms. "We're hearing anecdotal examples of workers who are documented, but may have a relative who is undocumented, that are leaving Alabama," he says.
Helms adds that farmers' attempts to fill the jobs worked by immigrants are failing. "We have talked to farmers who have said, 'I've tried to hire locals but I can't hire them, people will work for one or two days and then they won't come back.'"
Reed says that his organization will work with legislators in future sessions to fill the emerging void in the workforce. "I'm optimistic that that's going to be fixed in the next session."
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Words Mightier Than The Sword In Words Unleashed
by Sean Capelle
Words Unleashed ($0.99) by Moido Games Ltd. is a word game with variety.
Spell your way to victory by building words and scoring the most points possible across a selection of different ways of playing.
Four modes are available: action, puzzle, blitz and versus. It's like four games in one.
Action mode is your bread and butter word game. Played alone, you must advance to each level by forming words of three or more letters. Just like Boggle, the letters don't need to be adjacent.
After selecting the letters you want, the final letter that goes to the top will leave behind a green "play" button. Hit it to make the word take. A red "x" will show on the letter before the last, which strikes the word. You can also touch the individual letters at the top of the screen to recall them.
Blitz mode sees how many words you can spell in 30 seconds. Play again and see if you can beat your high score. This mode really challenges the player to either come up with a lot of tiny words or spend a second or two more to look for those larger words that will score more points.
Puzzle mode has 10 rounds for you to score as many points as possible to advance. Each word will have to pull as much weight as possible in order to reach that finish line. Luckily, unlike blitz mode, this one isn't timed.
Finally, in versus mode you vie against either a friend or random player through Game Center. The player who wins the most of the 10 rounds is the winner.
Gameplay occurs asynchronously, much like Letterpress. Don't worry because there's no time limit. Push notifications will let you know when it's your turn to go again.
They say waiting is the hardest part, and this is certainly true when waiting for your opponent to add his or her word for the round.
With so many other word games available in the App Store, there's certainly much competition. However, I think this game stands on its own with its variety of modes and stylized interface.
This game is available for iPhone and iPad at $0.99.
Head to the App Store to check it out.
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